Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Sun Jun-yu

Mr. Sun Jun-yu

孫潤宇字子涵

Mr. Sun Jun-yu was born at Wu Hsien, Kiangsu province, in 1880, and was a Provincial Graduate under the Ching regime. In 1900, he graduated from the Preparatory Department of the Peiyang University, Tientsin. In 1901 he made a tour in the South Sea Islands investigating industrial conditions there. After that trip, he went to Manchuria where he was entrusted with the work of organizing the Fengtien University of which he later became a professor. In 1904 he was sent by the Kiangsu Provincial government to Japan to study in the Japanese Imperial Law College where he later was graduated. After his return from Japan, Mr. Sun held the following positions under the Ching regime: Member of the Conetitutional Government Preparation Committee in the Board of the Civil Administration; Chief of Statistics Section in the Board of War; Professor of the College of Finance, High Police College and the Law College. In 1912 he became Chief of the Police Bureau in the Ministry of the Interior holding concurrently the post of Director of the High Police College. Subsequently he was elected President of the Kiangsu Lawyers' Association. In 1913 he became a Member of the Lower House of the First Parliament and was subsequently elected a Member of the Constitution Drafting Committee. After the first dissolution of the Parliament by Yuan Shih-kai in January 1914, Mr. Sun went to Japan becoming the First Class Councillor of the Chinese Legation in Tokyo. In 1916 when the First Parliament was reconvoked, Mr. Sun took his seat in the lower house again and was subsequently elected a member of the Foreign Affairs Affairs Committee of the House. At the same time he practiced law in Peking where he later became President of the Lawyers Association and was also retained lawyer of the Supreme Court. In June 1917 the First Parliament was again dissolved. The Peking government in September 1917 created a Special Senate to revise the Parliament Election Laws and he was a member of that Senate. In August 1917 the New Parliament was convoked in Peking. He was a member of the Lower House in which position he remained until August 1920 when the Anfu Party which had been responsible for the creation of this new parliament had been removed by the joint forces of Chihli and Fengtien. In August 1922 the First Parliament was reconvoked by Li Yuan-hung in Peking. Mr. Sun became a member of the Lower House again. In May 1924 he was appointed Chief of the Law Bureau in the Cabinet Office. In September 1924 he was appointed to hold concurrently the post of Chief Secretary of the Cabinet, Dr. W. W. Yen being the Premier. Mr. Sun was awarded the Second Class Paokuang Chiaho in December 1919; the Second Class Wenhu in January 1921; the First Class Tashou Chiaho in October 1922; and the First Class Tashou Paokuang Chiaho in April 1923.